I know I have majorly slacked off from blogging...and I do apoligze. Alot has been going on and I really couldn't bring myself to write about any of it. Til the other day one of my very good friends...told me that I need to start writeing that I had a blog and to use it, she says that I need to express myself a little more and put my thoughts and things out there. So I am takeing her advice. i'm not guarnteeing that I will write daily or that I will even write regulary. All I am commiting to is that I will only write and talk about what I want to. And if any of my thoughts affend anyone I'm not going to apologize anymore for the way I feel.
so I got this email from someone a week or so ago and considering the circumstances in my life right now I found it very contradicting. Especially considering the person who sent this email to me is the one who continues to do this to me and my family.
If u know me u know what and who I'm talking about, but at the same time this email I know had to be a message from the good Lord above. Why he sent this message to this person who continues to try to bring distress to my family. I have no clue, but I'm not going to question him. I am only going to listen, for he has a purpose way beyond any of us.
this is the email...
One day a farmer's old mule fell into an empty well. The farmer was disappointed because it was a good mule, but he concluded that the mule couldn't be rescued, since the well was too narrow and too deep to retrieve the animal. He decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth saving, and his only option was to fill the well with dirt.
[I know this sounds like a terrible way to put a mule out its misery. Remember, it's only an illustration.]
The farmer grabbed a shovel and began to fill the well with dirt, one shovel full at a time. It turns out that the animal wasn't as close to dead as the farmer had guessed. When he felt that first pile of dirt hit his back, he instinctively shook it off and trampled on it. Another pile landed on him and he shook it off and trampled it. This went on all afternoon: shake the dirt off, trample it, and step a little higher, shake the dirt off, trample it, and step a little higher. Finally, after a few hours of this, that mule had risen to a new height; he was able to step triumphantly out of the well.
"What's interesting is that the dirt that was meant to bury him actually saved his life."
So my opinion is that when we are down, we can always be sure that there will be ALWAYS be someone trying to throw a little dirt on us. I am now gonna be like that mule. I will shake whatever bad and ugly it is that life is giveing me and I WILL TRAMPLE it...and it WILL build me UP!!!
God is going to BRING ME and OUR little FAMILY UP and we will PREVAIL!!!
So my message to everyone this year is to look at the “dirt” life throws us from a different perspective.
I haven't reached the top yet but I am getting there...
ONE DAY AT A TIME
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good." (Genesis 50:20)
Love the email. I always find it funny how the mondane everyday things are usually God's way of trying to talk to us. Sounds like God's plan of getting through to you worked. I pray that all the dirt that has been thrown at you and Eric makes you raise triumphantly to the top and doesn't bury you.
ReplyDeleteI know! When I first got this email I was furious...but after reading it and praying about it for a few days. It was like wow, Leslie ur taking this all wrong...lol an email that was sent to me to upset me actually is the Lords way of saying HELLO LESLIE...I am listeing...
ReplyDeleteThanks for ur friendship and ur prayers. Things are comeing together maybe not as fast as i'd like, but I've been told patients is the key. And I am waiting graciously and the outcome looks better and better everyday!